Will You Run Out Of INT And BIGINT Identities In SQL Server?
In the war over Identities vs GUIDs as clustered indexes, one of the arguments in favor of Unique Identifiers is that you may run out of numbers when using a …
SQL Server Metrics Pack Update – September 2019
This morning I updated the Index Metrics piece of SQL Server Metrics Pack. This update mainly introduced some new functionality, with a few minor bug fixes. The two big enhancements …
SQL Scripts: How To Find Filtered Indexes
Filtered indexes are one of those neat little SQL Server features that a lot of people don’t seem to know about, or if they do they don’t use them very …
Index Basics: Find Tables That Do Not Have A Clustered Index
In a previous Index Basics post we went over the importance of having a Clustered Index on your tables, and we learned that SQL Server will automatically create a Clustered …
SQL Scripts: How To Find Index Fragmentation
This is the first post in an ongoing SQL Scripts series, in which I list useful queries that I use in my day to day database administration. What Is Index Fragmentation? …
Index Basics: Clustered Indexes
In SQL Server, an index is used to speed the retrieval of data from a table. Indexes are built from one or more columns in the table, and SQL Server uses these Indexes …